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WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS AND MIGRATIONSex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India

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“Upholding Women's Human Rights:Transnational Dialogue on Gender – Biased Sex Selection”

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Signing of MoU between

Hon'ble Ms. Justice Gita MittalActing Chief Justice

High Court of Delhi

will deliver the Inaugural Address & Release the Book

Jindal Global Law School&

Cornell Law School

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Date: Time: Sunday, 10 December 2017 | 10:00 am – 5:45 pm

Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110003 Venue:

Professor Sital KalantryClinical Professor of LawCornell Law School

Programme

INAUGURAL SESSION: 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM

Chair: Dr. Albeena Shakil, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School

Panelists:

Ÿ Dr. Bijayalaxmi Nanda, Associate Professor, Miranda House College, University of DelhiŸ Dr. Upasana Mahanta, Associate Professor, Jindal Global Law SchoolŸ Dr. Amrita Nandy, Independent Researcher, New DelhiŸ Professor Saptarshi Mandal, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law SchoolŸ Professor Sital Kalantry, Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

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SESSION I: 11:15 AM – 1:15 PMComments on the book, Women’s Human Rights and Migration: Sex Selective Abortion

Laws in the United States and India (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017)

SESSION II: 2:15 PM – 3:45 PMEvidence of the Devastating Consequences of Sex Selection in India -

Will India Follow China’s Path?

9:30 am – 10:00 am Registration

Welcome Address

10:00 am – 10:10 am Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) and Dean, Jindal Global Law School (JGLS)

Remarks by the Author

10:10 am – 10:15 am Professor Sital Kalantry, Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

Introducing the Theme of the Conference

10:15 am – 10:20 am Professor Saptarshi Mandal, Assistant Professor & Assistant Director, Centre for Human Rights Studies, Jindal Global Law School

Inaugural Address

10:20 am – 10:45 am Hon'ble Ms. Justice Gita Mittal, Acting Chief Justice, High Court of Delhi

Tea: 10:45 am – 11:15 am

Chair: Professor Severyna Magill, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Women, Law and Social Change, Jindal Global Law School

Panelists:

Ÿ Professor Ravinder Kaur, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New DelhiŸ Professor (Dr.) Mohan Rao, Centre of Social Medicine & Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New DelhiŸ Dr. Aparna Chandra, Assistant Professor, National Law University, DelhiŸ Dr. Albeena Shakil, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School

Tea Break: 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm

Release of the Book

Signing of MoU

SESSION III: 4:15 PM – 5:45 PMBuilding Transnational Feminist Bridges

Chair: Professor Deblina Dey, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School

Panelists:

Ÿ Ms. Rupsa Mallik, Director, Programs and Innovation, CREA, New DelhiŸ Ms. Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Executive Director, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, ChicagoŸ Ms. Prathibha Siva, SAMA Resource Group for Women and Health, New DelhiŸ Ms. Medha Gandhi, Policy Director, IPAS Development Foundation, New Delhi

Concluding Remarks & Vote of Thanks

5:35 pm – 5:45 pm Dr. Vishwas H. Devaiah, Associate Professor, Jindal Global Law School

DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC LECTURE: 5:50 PM - 7:15 PMThe World Human Rights Day by

Dr. Colin Gonsalves, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India & Founder, Human Rights Law Network

Some of the most hotly contested international women's rights issues today arise from the movement of peoples from one country to another and the practices they purportedly bring with them. In Women's Human Rights and Migration, Sital Kalantry focuses on immigrants of Asian descent living in the United States who are believed to abort female fetuses because they do not want a female child. While sex-selective abortion is a human rights concern in India, should we, for that reason, assume that the practice undermines women's equality in the United States? Although some pro-choice feminists believe that these prohibitions on sex-selective abortion promote women's equality, other feminists fiercely oppose such laws, characterizing them as a Trojan horse in the larger pursuit to overturn the reproductive rights guaranteed by Roe v. Wade. Nearly half of state legislatures in the United States have proposed laws restricting sex-selective abortion since 2009 and nine have adopted them.

Kalantry argues that traditional feminist legal theories and international human rights law fail to provide adequate guidance in examining the human rights implications of the reproductive practices of immigrant women, evidenced by the fact that both supporters and opponents ground their claims in women's equality. She advocates instead for a context-based approach that is open to the possibility that sex-selective abortion practices will have significantly different human rights implications when they emerge in different national contexts. The product of extensive empirical and interdisciplinary research, Kalantry's book investigates the actual occurrence of sex-selective abortion among Asian Americans, the social and cultural contexts in which women in the United States and India practice sex-selective abortion, and the consequences of the laws in each country for women's equality. Women's Human Rights and Migration develops a transnational feminist legal approach to examining and legislating contested acts that result from migration.

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